#2,431 Rainbow.

Today after my aunt Charlotte’s heartbreaking funeral, this appeared in the cemetery without a single roll of thunder or drop of rain:

And it’s not the first time I’ve heard of this happening. After losing his sweet mama in a car accident, a rainbow appeared over my friend Adam’s wedding just a few months later when her absence was such a new, raw ache. And he knew it was from her. And he celebrated that night, knowing her blessing was on it.

You can call me crazy, but as a believer I know that God sends us signs and comforts in incredible ways. Today I’m especially thankful for that.

I’m Erin Napier, co-owner of Laurel Mercantile Co. and Scotsman Co. with my husband, Ben. I’m an artist and he’s a craftsman and we help people moving to our town find and restore old houses on HGTV’s Home Town. In an effort to count my blessings, this journal has documented only the good things that happen on each and every day of my life since January 1, 2010. I am a wife, a daughter, a homebody, a bubble bath lover, a book reader, a sentimental, stressed out, slightly obsessive southerner. Welcome!